All Work, Before Play

December 2016

When in August this year, India sent its largest ever delegation to the Summer Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, most expected the countr...

Tags: Highways, Railways, Air, Sea ports, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Summer Olympic Games, Sona Chaudhary, Kabaddi, Kho-kho, Wrestling, Scheme of Grants for Creation of Sports Infrastructure, PPP, Psychological counsellors, Milkha Singh

TERI’s World Sustainable Development Summit 2016

October 2016

In a gesture which can be seen as emphasising India’s ratification of the Paris Agreement and adoption of Agenda 2030, President of India Pranab Mukh...

Tags: India Pranab Mukherjee, WSDS 2016, Power, Coal, New, Renewable Energy, Piyush Goyal, Anil Madav Dave, Jayant Sinha, Tomasz Kozlowski, Karmenu Vella, Amitabh Kant, Government of India, Dipak Dasgupta, Ministry of Finance

Auto manufacturing will be main driver of ‘Make in India’ initiative

September 2016

Girish Shankar, Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises has said that the Government of India aims to make automobiles manufac...

Tags: Girish Shankar, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Make in India, Auto Mission Plan, National Electric Mobility Mission 2020, Amitabh Kant, NITI Aayog, Government of India

´Port investments can add 1.4% to GDP growth´

May 2016

Investments in setting up ports and large industrial cities near them can help push economic growth by up to 1.4 percentage points, Niti Aayog CEO Am...

Tags: Niti Aayog, Amitabh Kant, Ports, Maritime India Summit, Narendra Modi

Make in India Exhibition extravaganza

March 2016

The first Make In India Week was held in Mumbai and was the biggest ever show of the country´s manufacturing prowess. With a business commitment of R...

Tags: Make In India, Amitabh Kant, Construction Machinery, Infrastructure, Stefan Lofven, Juha Sipila, Piotr Glinski, Yosuke Takagi, Cesar Fergozo, Ignasius Jonan, Som Prasad Pandey, Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar, Nitin Gadkari

Instrumental Role

February 2016

The government has appointed Amitabh Kant, Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), as full-time Chief Executive Office...

Tags: Amitabh Kant, DIPP, NITI Aayog, Narendra Modi Government, Make in India, Sindhushree Khullar, National Institution for Transforming India

Power Booster

December 2015

¨A Diwali gift for investors,¨ in the words of Amitabh Kant, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry-Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion....

Tags: Power Booster, Amitabh Kant, Foreign Direct Investment, FDI

Govt plans to put 98% sectors for FDI

December 2015

Government is planning to put 98 per cent of sectors, which are open to foreign investments, under the automatic route so that businessmen won´t need...

Tags: Investments, Udyog Bhavan, Amitabh Kant, Department of Industrial Policy, FDI